Talking Shorts

There is an obvious tension between one’s private experience of sex and watching sex acts on the big screen. Still, seeing a sex scene in the cinema can feel like an intimate encounter, despite the public setting—in the dark, where one is free from worldly distractions and with the screen as the sole focal point, it becomes possible to sink into your seat and to let desires r...

I bet I’m not the only one who could sometimes use a “mute” button in real life, when the score of a film starts to get overly dramatic. But it is not complete silence I wish for; instead, in those cases, I’d want to peel off the musical additives and expose myself to the innate rhythm of the moving picture before me. A realisation occurred to me while watching the Internatio...

In March 2026, the betting company Polymarket announced it would open a bar in Washington, DC, called The Situation Room. Its announcement stated that the bar would feature over 80 Wi-Fi-connected screens, each plugged into various live data feeds, including flight trackers, newswires, stock tickers, and X accounts. Over a cocktail, the promise was that patrons, many o...

Imagine a place beyond your final shift, beyond shadow, beyond the rhythms that have shaped you. There, could you ruminate in the face of certainty, not as knowledge but as something that binds—as fate? And returning to it, could you reckon with that fate alongside generations of inherited will, without letting either harden into destiny? The final instalment of Haitian filmm...

Away from Vilnius Short Film Festival’s central theatrical screenings, Meduza Gallery hosted an exhibition of Susanna Wallin’s films—meditative loops on Floridian encounters at different scales. Soon after me, and by chance, Wallin herself entered the otherwise empty space and sat down to watc...